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Hello Kitty Sushi Playset!

It’s a Pink Hello Kitty Laptop! via Christine. I just LOVE it! I’m a nut though.

What happens when u cross compulsive camera collecting disorder with compulsive Hello Kitty collecting disorder? See moblog.

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My blog looked fine last night, then this morning looked screwey, so I re-uploaded the .css, so you may need to do a shift-reload to see the page right.

You are Ootoro! Umm fatty tuna. You live in between
wierd and mainstream. And yeppers, you are
yummy!

What Kind of Sushi are you?
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(via Nala)

My mom sent me this today, although I’m sure you’ve all seen it by now. It’s the Blog Block cartoon from Doonesbury. It’s great, check it out!

Christine had a good point about browsing web pages w/ cell phones, pda’s, etc. Design the page so that the content loads first, not the stale sidebar. I prefer the look of my old dual-sidebar layout, but having tried to surf on my new cell phone, I think efficiency will override design at this point.

Am playing around w/ a new layout, so pardon the DUST as the page may load funny ’till I get it all worked out. In the words of the great Big Pink Cookie, “CSS makes my eyes bleed“.

Check out this optical illusion. It’s not an animated image, the movement is an illusion.

M’s office, 2:30 am, some pipe went down or something so I figured I’d come along for the ride. Moblogging.

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I ran a laser light show again tonight at the planetarium (“laser one”). I put pix up at my moblog. It was fun.

Related:
http://www.laserblog.com/archivesmt/000399.html
http://www.laserblog.com/archivesmt/000397.html
http://www.laserblog.com/archivesmt/000395.html

Don’t forget my new moblog. I need to overhaul my main page, get rid of the left sidebar (for those who surf on palm pilots, phones, etc.) and update some links.

I updated the entry “Inexpsive Digicam” because the camera mentioned has since been pulled due to alot of problems.

Are you a tech addict? I might be.

From CNN:

“Close-up: Best view of Mars in 60,000 years.

“If Neanderthals had telescopes, they would have seen it a little bit better than we will on August 27,” said astronomer Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. “ Read More…

Must… get… off… the… couch…
Want to surf.
Want to read.
Must get dressed and brush teeth and leave house.
Am one with the couch.
am
addicted
to
net

Roll out of bed, gather up magazines off floor (CPU, PC World, Mac World, Discover, Family Tree Magazine, PC Photo, & the Nokia 3650 manual), go downstairs, check Slashdot, blog, check Fark, check Google News Sci/Tech, wonder what’s for lunch…. Indian? Subway? Steak ‘n Shake?

Check the moblog to see where I end up for lunch, and to peek into my day.

We had satellite for a while on the main tv, and cable on all other tv’s. This was because cable was part of our homeowner’s association dues, so we had to pay it either way. Now, if I want satellite on our main tv, we have to pay extra for cable on the other tv’s (or get 3 more satellite reciever boxes and run wires to each… and pay for them). But even paying for cable plus satellite on one tv is more money than just choosing one service. This whole thing sux. The local cable service (Comcast SUX!) does not even carry tech tv. I’m going thru major TechTV withdrawl. Call me a nerd, I don’t care. *snort!*

This whole SCO thing (link via slashdot) is pissing me off.

They (SCO) claim that somebody used their proprietary unix code in the open-source Linux, but they won’t share what code that is unless whomever they show it to signs a non-disclosure agreement. Therefore, IF the prolem exists at all, it’s unfixable, enabling them to continue to use scare-tactics and sue people.

They’re suing companies left and right for using said code, but not actually saying WHAT code! They’re using the scare-tactics to sell “rights” to using Linux which has their supposed stolen code embedded in it. They have no legal right to sell licenses to use Linux, which is open-source!

The whole thing is like a mafia-tactic. See, if they had a leg to stand on, they’d share what code was supposedly stolen. The fact that they won’t share it without the viewer signing a non-disclosure agreement is proof alone that they are full of shit.

On 6-30-03 Linus Torvalds (creater of Linux) commented on this.

Also, 7-4-03: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6237239.htm via Konduct.

I came across this AP article the other day while surfing “sci/tech” news on my new internet-enabled cell phone: ‘Flash mobs’ stage wacky public stunts

I got a real kick out of the whole concept, and just wish I lived in a town where something like that could actually happen. My town is so boring. There are no lomo or photo scavenger hunts. Even all the meetups I sign up for at meetup.com get cancelled because of lack of interest.

Anyway, this article (and phenomena) is really neat.

UPDATE: If you link-hop to urls mentioned in the article, and follow links further, there are some interesting blog-posts and pictures.

From CNN: Teen abduction foiled by cell phone cam

I’m finally back in the APPLE world again. I was ALWAYS a Mac person. Then when M moved down in ’98, the PC came with and was much newer/faster. Since then it’s just been easier to stay PC as I accumulated software. But we finally got a new Mac, an eMac. We got a deal at CompUSA on our last road-trip as they had used floor-models on sale reduced. We’re psyched about iTunes and plan to get an iPod eventually. I’m just a bit stumped because I have NO SOFTWARE for it. Mainly I’m going to want Photoshop. All in good time I guess. But I’m just so happy to be Apple again! =:D

I’m already a little bored w/ the default portal on my new cell phone. I can surf the web w/ the phone and the default portal is mMode. I’d love to find some better sites or portals to keep things interesting. I especially like sci/tech news. A google search reveals little… mabe I’m using the wrong keywords. I’ve tried wap portal and mobile portal and wml portal.

I saw in a customer review of the Nokia 3650 a guy said this:

“1000s of games and apps which also gives the possibility to find 3rd party apps that are better than the standard ones. For instance, the standard camera has no zoom but I found a program that has 16 x digital zoom! And also the standard video recorder has a 10 seconds recording limit but I found this app that has no limitations whatsoever so I can record movies as long as I have memory storage on my 128 MB MultiMediaCard!”

I’d like to find some of those apps!

Stuck in traffic? Got a camera phone? Bored? Send a photo of your traffic jam to traffic.stuck@tamw.com. http://traffic.textamerica.com/ is a public moblog of people’s traffic jams from all over. I love public photo albums that anyone can post to.

There’s also one at http://mms.textamerica.com.

This looks like a killer ap for the cell phone! KABLOG

“…KABLOG moblogging tool for J2ME devices such as mobile phones and PDAs:

KABLOG is a tool for mobile phones and PDAs that allows you to post new blog entries to blog servers such as Movable Type, blogger, B2, Blog-City, UserLand (Radio), Roller, SnipSnap, and other blog servers that support either the simple blogger xmlrpc interface or the extended metaWeblog interface. In addition, KABLOG provides extended support for posting entries to Movable Type.”

I already can post to my MT blog via email using qmail2mt.pl, but maybe this would be better? I’ll have to check this out further!

“Add a self-timer to your disposeable camera” it says. M has been looking for a way to add a self-timer to a tinycam so that he can strap it to a kite and then have it take a photo from above. This might do it.

Check out this weird one-handed keyboard, called a Frogpad. It’s a USB keyboard.

I’m looking for an external keyboard for my new Nokia 3650 but so far have not found one. I don’t mind the round keyboard that’s on the phone, I’m used to it already. But just for some things I do w/ the phone, I’d like a a qwerty keyboard. Comment here if you know of one!

I have a Sony Clie NZ90 that has a qwerty keybaord on it, and the clie is bluetooth. I wonder if I can use that somehow. >

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Mars is getting closer to earth than it has in 50,000 years or so. Also, there was recently an occultation of Mars and the Moon (where one thing passes over another). Have a look at this amazing photo taken in south Florida:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030724.html (click image on page for higher-res image)